Various News: Flair Interview, Box Office for The Wrestler, UWF to Replace AWA, More
Posted by Larry Csonka on 01.26.2009
More Monday news!
- The Edmonton Sun currently has an interview up with Ric Flair, discussing his upcoming appearance in the area, his workout regiment and more. Check out the full interview here.
- The Charlotte Observer currently has an interview up with former WCW performer Lodi. In the interview, Lodi tries to compare his career to that of Mickey Rourke's character in The Wrestler. You can check out that article here.
- The Miami Herald has an interview up with former WWE performer Romeo Roselli (one half of the Heart Throbs Tag Team), who has a role in The Wrestler, wrestling Ron Killings and then talking to Randy the Ram. Roselli has been having good success in his post WWE career, as he has picked up a lot of acting gigs. You can read the full interview here.
- For those interested, The Wrestler was up to #14 this week earning $3.7 million, raising its six week total to $9.5 million. The movie had a very good per theater average, taking in $6,537 per theater.
- Starting at midnight on Wednesday, January 28th, ESPN Classic will replace the Classic AWA Shows with the Herb Abrams UWF shows.
Bah, the link is dead! I was looking forward to a Lodi interview too!
Posted By: Maffew (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM
no more AWA? I'm glad i recorded them.
also... does this mean that John Cena will mine the UWF icons for his next t-shirt?
Posted By: educated savage (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM
So AWA is leaving?
And I really wanted to see that Turkey Pole match.
Posted By: Vince (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM
no more AWA? I'm glad i recorded them.
also... does this mean that John Cena will mine the UWF icons for his next t-shirt?
Posted By: educated savage (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:31 AM
For those interested, The Wrestler was up to #14 this week earning $3.7 million, raising its six week total to $9.5 million. The movie had a very good per theater average, taking in $6,537 per theater.
That's all fine and dandy,but how much did it cost to make the film?If it cost $20 million then it's not doing too well is it?
Posted By: Guest#4518 (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM
There's an extraneous "target =" at the end of the link that needs to go, but the link works. It's a really interesting read too, Lodi looks like he's 60 in some of the pics.
Posted By: MrWhaleJr (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM
According to Wikipedia (so it may not be set in stone) The budget for the Wrestler was 6 million so I'd say its doing fairly well
Posted By: Sabby (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM
its doing wel considering its not even playing antion wide yet I wnet to over a dozen thathers this week and it wasn't playing at none of them
Posted By: random (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM
That's too bad about the AWA stuff. I found it a couple mos ago and there was some great old school guys on there- Orton, Adonis, Perfect, Sheiky, Wahoo, Snuka.....
Posted By: FUZEY (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Actually The Wrestler is now open in most cities...so that's unfortunate.
Posted By: Guest#7349 (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM
A $20 million budget? Are you kidding me? They didn't even pay Mickey Rourke.
Posted By: Jade (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 12:21 PM
would it hurt for them to show some global championship wrestling
Posted By: James Mack (Registered) on January 26, 2009 at 12:22 PM
According to Wikipedia (so it may not be set in stone) The budget for the Wrestler was 6 million so I'd say its doing fairly well
Thanks alot.Sounds like they ARE doing well.
A $20 million budget? Are you kidding me? They didn't even pay Mickey Rourke.
It was just a randome figure.But now Rourke will get his payday from the WWE.Good for him.
Posted By: Guest#4248 (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM
I assume the AWA will eventually return. It originally replaced UWF in the first place. As bad as some of the late 80's AWA was, nothing was as terrible as the UWF.
Posted By: Talley (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM
DAMMIT ESPN, WHERE'S MY GLOBAL!!!!!
Posted By: James (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 01:09 PM
"That's all fine and dandy,but how much did it cost to make the film?If it cost $20 million then it's not doing too well is it?
Posted By: Guest#4518 (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM"
it only cost $6 million, so it's grossed $3.5 million domestically, and there'll be more internationally. not bad for what is basically an indie/arthouse movie that get by on critical acclaim because it can't match the advertising of the blockbusters.
Posted By: DaJ (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 01:32 PM
the wrestler will clean up when it hits stores on dvd. those sales alone will more than make up for the budget. plus after the oscars the movie should hold strong at the box office. you guys are all idiots.
Posted By: idiots (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 02:17 PM
According to the IMDB The Wrestler was only on 144 screens nationally as of last weekend. It should be more than that by now but not by much. The movie may be playing nationally but that's still not the same thing as a wide release which usually sees screen counts of 2500+. Even if it's not a summer blockbuster. (By comparison, The Dark Knight was on over 4300 screens last year at it's peak.)
I don't expect The Wrestler to ever be on more than a few hundred screens, because the budget simply isn't there for that. DaJ is right in pointing out that this is essentially an indy/arthouse flick. It's riding high from a notable star and director and tremendous word of mouth. I would expect it to finish somewhere north of $35 million, but it may go higher.
Given it's scope it's performing very well.
Posted By: Toby (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 02:36 PM
Lodi should've been the one to replace Nic Cage.
Posted By: Guest#0601 (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 03:09 PM
The Wrestler actually grossed 3.7 Mil this weekend and is up over 9 Mil. It had a big increase in screens last weekend and will have one more increase this weekend. I'd be shocked if it didn't hit the top 10 this week and make another 4-5 Mil over the weekend. If Rourke wins best actor, expect another spike after the Oscars of a few Million. I'd bet it grosses 20 Mil in the US, another 5-10 worldwide, and will sell a few million DVDs worldwide. A HUGE win for Aronofsky.
Posted By: beezy (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 03:15 PM
"no more AWA? I'm glad i recorded them.
also... does this mean that John Cena will mine the UWF icons for his next t-shirt?
Posted By: educated savage (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 10:27 AM AND 10:31AM
That's a great comment.
It was even BETTER the second time you posted it.
Troll.
Posted By: you suck (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 04:14 PM
It's kind of sad to read Lodi talking about how he's like Randy the Ram. He was NEVER a big star, always a midcarder or jobber. Maybe Jake the Snake Roberts could compare but Lodi? He had a small taste of it...but nothing close.
Posted By: EJ (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 06:32 PM
The movie sucked, and as I predicted, my fans feel the same way. HAHAHHAHA, you fools will never learn, George South is the man
Posted By: sprite (Guest) on January 26, 2009 at 09:55 PM
Herb Abrams UWF was sooooooo awful. GWF was sooooo much better. AWA should still be on onnce in a while, it's best of the 3 for sure.
Posted By: 2 Stoned Corpio (Guest) on January 27, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I don't even think there are 20 hours or UWF Wrestling programming for them to air. Plus they never licensed a lot of their more entertaining stuff (the Vegas live card and their attempt at a PPV) to ESPN so it won't air. They've played the AWA episodes they have through twice so I guess they wanted to mix it up a bit.
Posted By: Trashy (Guest) on January 27, 2009 at 02:02 AM
"That's all fine and dandy,but how much did it cost to make the film?If it cost $20 million then it's not doing too well is it?"
Have you seen the movie? The production costs don't even approach 20 mil, dumb asshole. Rourke even claims that he wasn't paid a salary to be in the movie, and that would be the most significant expense.
Posted By: Frank (Guest) on January 27, 2009 at 06:33 PM
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